Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also maintained that increases in public expenditure would lead to increased taxation and higher unemployment . |
| 2 | In the 1950s many teachers found that exercises in grammatical analysis did not help children to raise their standards in the use of English . |
| 3 | A sizable majority of respondents in each of the remaining categories , including local law societies , agreed that grants to individual clients should continue to be unlimited . |
| 4 | The Software Foundation admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , which have shied away from committing to Distributed Computing Environment until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy . |
| 5 | OSF admitted that calls from big industry players such as Novell Inc , who 've shied away from committing to DCE until now , persuaded the organisation to reconsider its pricing policy ( UX No 424 ) . |
| 6 | Their achievements , such as wage rises and the setting of minimum wage levels , were not won through class struggle , but received as favours from local government in the expectation of their political support in return . |
| 7 | That happened that happens with all staff changes where you need a degree of skill its compounded by the fact that all nine will be changed at the same time and as I said before is a total loss of the skills base . |
| 8 | In addition to that , direct Murdoch promotions are boosting sales , but Granada warned that estimates for total demand should be taken ‘ with a certain pinch of salt . ’ |
| 9 | This implied that eosinophils in normal gut mucosa generally do not express class II molecules , which was directly confirmed by paired staining for eosinophil cationic protein ( EG2 ) and HLA-DR ( median number of EG2 + cells examined : 101 , range 64–280 , n=4 ) in which only four double positive cells were found . |
| 10 | It said that fears for public order would make a hearing undesirable . |
| 11 | Mr Major said that plans for devolved Scottish , Welsh and regional assemblies , combined with moves to a federal Europe and an end to the first-past-the-post voting system , were ‘ of far greater importance than the general election itself ’ . |
| 12 | The main reason for the better than expected results appeared to be a delay in expenditure by the regional governments but in the longer term he said that cuts in public expenditure had helped to reduce the budget deficit from a peak of almost 13 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) in 1982 to 7.8 per cent in 1988 and 6.6 per cent in 1989 . |